While walking to train this morning, I found a shotgun shell on the street. 12 ga 3.25", it would fit my shotgun. The question is, is it safe? It has a slightly rusted perimeter of the base, otherwise it looks fine. Looks like it fell out of someone's garbage.
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Safe as in "won't go off by itself", yes. Safe as in "I'd put it in my shotgun and fire it", well, I wouldn't bother.
THe shell may have ejection problems but it will probably work otherwise. Considering the cost of a shell, I'd not bother putting it into my gun. Not that there is any danger from the gun exploding but rather problems like not firing or staying in the barrel type problems. Failure to fire is always a chancy time.
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As with all ammunition. If you don't know exactly what you're putting in you gun. DON'T FIRE IT.
There's plenty of people with reloding equipment for 12 ga. The shell you picked up could have been loaded by a 12 year old with nothing better to do than play with Daddy's loader. I know. I was that 12 year old and I threw away plenty of loads that I was too scared to fire.
Steve at Mits....
3 1/4"? Thats relatively new. So it should be fine.
Just be damned sure that indeed you have a 3 1/4" chamber. While it probably wont blow up a 2 3/4 or 3" shot gun in good condition..it could and when a shotgun catastrphicly disassembles because of the wrong ammo...people get hurt.
The rust on the base, no biggy. I was given 2 5 gallon buckets full of such a friend of mine dug out of his garage. Lots of paper shells too. Perhaps 3% of the paper ones were duds.
This after his garage had been under 3 foot of water for 2 days.
Gunner
Leftwingers are like pond scum. They are green, slimy, show up where they are not wanted, and interfere with the fishing.
Strider
Thank you Bob and Dave (and others). I threw the shell away.
iWhy on Earth would you trust a "found" shell in your weapon? For goodness sake they cost only pennies apiece. Cut the plastic and soak the thing in water, throw it in the trash...
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